Giveaway picker for the entrant list you export

Winner Picker has no connection to Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube or any other platform. It never sees your posts or comments, and there is no account to link. The entrants reach it as a CSV file or as pasted text, and how you get them there depends on where they entered. Form builders and email services generally offer an export to CSV. Comments have to be copied out, by hand or with a tool of your choosing, into a spreadsheet with one row per entry.

For a short list, pasting is quicker: up to 10,000lines, one entry per line. Cells copied from a spreadsheet keep their columns, with the first line read as the header. Plain lines go in as a single column called Entry. Commas are not treated as separators when you paste, so a name written as “Lastname, Firstname” stays one entry.

Every row is one entry, and nothing is removed. If the same handle commented five times and all five rows are in the file, that person holds five chances and can be drawn for more than one place. Sometimes that is the rule you announced, for example an extra entry for each friend tagged. Often it is not.

The upload step tells you which case you are in before anything is drawn. It reports how many rows repeat another row. On a file with several columns, a row only counts as a repeat when every column matches, so a handle that appears twice with different comment text is not flagged. If your rule is one entry per person, upload a single column of handles or email addresses and read the count. If it is above zero, remove the repeats in your spreadsheet and choose the file again until the form reports no duplicate entries.

A public draw publishes the whole entry file, downloadable by anyone with the link. A column of email addresses or phone numbers in that file is personal data on a public page for five years, and the form warns about exactly this and asks you to confirm before it goes on. For a newsletter giveaway, export the subscriber ID from your email service instead of the address, then look the winners up on your side. Or choose a private draw, which keeps the winners and the file behind a password you set and keeps the page out of search results. Whether you may publish a list at all is your decision, as the terms set out.

The result page shows the winners in place order with every column from your file, the number of entries, the completion time and the source of the random seed. Post its link next to the winner's name. When the link is pasted into a chat app or a social post, the preview shows the drawing number, the draw's name and the completion time in UTC. Pick a name your entrants will recognize, since it cannot be changed after the draw.

An entrant who doubts the result does not need you or an account to check it. They can download the source file and find their own row. They can enter the draw ID, shown at the top of the result, on the verify page, which confirms the record was issued by OnlineRandomizer.com and has not changed since publication. And they can hash the file they downloaded and compare it with the source list fingerprint the verify page shows. If the two match, the list in front of them is the list the winners came from. For a private draw, they need the password to open the file, so decide in your giveaway rules whether you will give it to entrants who ask.

There is no reserve-winner setting. The simplest approach is to draw more winners than prizes and state in the giveaway rules, before the draw, that the places after the last prize are reserves, called in order. Running a second draw later also works, but the first result stays published and cannot be withdrawn, so anyone with the first link will see both.

A giveaway with 800 entrants costs 8 tokens to publish, whether you draw one winner or fifty. Test draws are free, so run one with the real file to check the entry count and the columns before you spend anything. Larger lists are on the pricing page.